What did you do? she hissed. Me? Don’t be a dick, she said. That ship has sailed. Hang on. We can’t fight yet. Where’s my hug?
The whole weak in the knees thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett
Some other facts I picked up:Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbours Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.Baked beans are very popular in England. For bre...
She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files...
No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.
If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know.
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
I feel warm and reassured, I whispered. He's like Santa.
Braiiinnnnssss, we said in unison.It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor.
Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
Who runs a combination ? Keith asked. With the cat shelter being the primary function? Only people who want to kill you with an axe and then put you in the garden and build a shed on you, that's who.
Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?
Salt. Wound. Together at last.
Running away is pretty pathetic, but it’s even worse getting caught.
I'm the last of the mad ones.
I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named Further Maths. It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.
I felt like I was faking all of this, like I was playing the part of a student. I had the costume and the props, but I didn't really belong here. I'd pinned notes on the stupid corkboard backing of my...
I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. I...
Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow.